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OUR
late friend, the kenpo-karate expert John McSweeney, often quoted the
above statement. It was from John that we first heard it. It is
appropriate to the thesis at hand.

It is not at all popular
today to advocate the warrior spirit and warrior skills for the private
citizen. Yet those who insist that “only the police” or “only the
military” should in fact be in possession of arms and be training in
lethal close quarters combat skills, are advocating a position that is
nothing less than tyranny.

The right to self-defense when the
individual’s person, property, rights, or dignity is being violated by
any entity — individual, group, government, or “official” organization
of any description — must be recognized as an unconditional absolute,
or there is no real freedom and there are no individual rights, at all.
It is preposterous and intellectually insulting and offensive to say
that someone has the right to his person, his privacy, his property,
and the prerogative of deciding that which he will do in life and how
he will live, and then in the same breath to mutter that his right to
protect and to defend all or any of this is “limited” or is subject to
the permissions and approvals of some “higher human authority” —
emperor, ayatollah, king, queen, potentate, fürer, prime minister,
presidium, committee, collective, proletariat, or president, etc. That
people have bought this latter bullshit since the species first came
out of the trees is merely a confirmation of their stupidity,
uselessness, and — in general — lack of any capacity to appreciate that
which their nature requires for living as human beings on earth. It
does not alter the irrevocable fact that any situation save that of
POLITICAL FREEDOM and PERSONAL AUTONOMY is, as far as any creature
deserving of the designation “human” is concerned, evil.

This
principle is, we maintain, an absolute. It is valid regardless of the
degree to which one cares to put it to the test. Thus, a schooyard
bully and a thug government differ only in degree, not in quality; and
both must be dealt with in the same manner: by applying self-defensive
force. The right to employ and to apply such force must always be held
to be unconditional and absolute, or true civilization cannot exist.

The
private, free citizen of a properly run constitutional republic that is
built upon the premises that the Founding Fathers of the United States
of America gave us, has an absolute and unconditional right to defend
himself, his family, his home, his community, and his nation. He does
not “derive” this right from some collection of disgusting,
law-degreed, scumbag, powerlusting, psychopathic, greedy, inexcusable
bastards who managed to con the sea of braindead window dummies all
around him into voting them into office. The only legitimate “office”
that may properly be held by anyone in a government such as the one
that used to exist in the United States of America, is an office
dedicated to the protection of those rights — Natural, Human Rights of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — guaranteed to be
recognized and upheld by the Constitution of the United States of
America, and the Bill of Rights.

In a free country the PRIVATE
CITIZEN is supreme. Such law enforcement officials as may need to be
employed are the servants not the masters of the citizenry. It is they
(the servants) who derive their “right” to be armed and to use weapons
from those whom they serve; it is not the other way around — i.e. the
way it is today. The citizenry — in a free nation — may decide to
disarm the police. Only in a tyranny may the police act to disarm the
citizenry.

As for the military, the Founding Fathers established
the right system. Never ought the military in a free nation to be used
against the citizenry. N-E-V-E-R.

Obviously, things are now
upside down in this Country. When they were predominantly rightside up
(ie prior to 1960) an essay such as this one could never have been
inspired, and would never have been necessary.

Every human being
has the right — the EQUAL right — to defend himself. No innocent
individual human life is “more entitled” to be defended than is
another. And in order to exercise that right, every individual has the
right to acquire, maintain, and when and if necessary use the skills
and the tools with which defense of himself and those whom he loves may
be undertaken.

Some careful thought will demonstrate that in a
feral world (and we live in a very feral world) those who lack the
skills and the tools with which self-protection may be implemented are
at the mercy of any predatory individual(s) who chooses to employ force
in order to violate others physically, and/or in order to take or to
destroy the property of others.

The conclusion, therefore,
that indeed, one must first of all be a warrior, or all else is folly,
can be seen to be very logical. What good are rights without the power
to defend them? Of what use or good is it to BE “right”, when you lack
the ability to defend your position against those who are “wrong”?

First a warrior, or all else is folly.

One
final thought about the “Rights of Man”: It is crucial to comprehend
that these rights exist for all men, everywhere, and for all time.
These rights can be violated (as they have always been in the Western
European, Eastern European, and Asian socialist states), or as they are
now being flagrantly violated and trammeled in the United States of
America. But they are absolute and they are the proper estate of every
human being — acknowledged and recognized, or not. This was the thesis
of our Founding Fathers in America, and the Document that they authored
(not to “provide” man’s rights, but to recognize them as unalienably
inviolate) — the Constitution of the United States of America and the
Bill of Rights — may be shredded and burned, but that in no sense
negates, abridges, or even remotely affects the TRUTH of those Rights
of Man being his; and being his forever and for all time.

It
is these facts that stand as sanctification for every man’s right to be
a warrior first, with all of that which his so being implies.

More:
YOUR “being a warrior first”, dear reader, is, when you ponder the
matter, much more than your prerogative. It becomes, when you take your
status as a free man seriously, your obligation.

--Bradley J. Steiner [Steiner is a colleague of John Perkins and President of the International Combat Martial Arts Federation]

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Great post, Two Feathers! I would just like to add that it is not at all popular to advocate the warrior spirit because the very principle of being a warrior in this time is greatly warped from the original sense! Warriors of old fought with honor and bravery. You had to face the warrior you were fighting with and look him in the eye. Now we use video game drone fighter planes, being controlled from an ocean away, to bomb innocent civilians, not even other soldiers.Thanks for the inspiration!Peace and Protection!!!!Sean